Some residents who attended Tuesday’s public meeting raised worries about traffic and vandalism. Others said the trail will boost tourism and provide more access to nature.
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With Bedford County farm, slave owner’s descendant finds a chance to restore forest and help heal wounds from history
“I say all the time that if we want to celebrate the good things our ancestors did, we have to reckon with the bad things they did as well,” said Mark Ferguson.
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New director of Roanoke’s Black history museum talks about a ‘hero’s journey’
A Q&A with the new executive director of the Harrison Museum of African American Culture in Roanoke.
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Sweet acquitted of misdemeanor assault
A Virginia Tech student had accused the Pulaski County administrator of grabbing her at a tailgate gathering.
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The Giles County town of Glen Lyn votes itself out of existence
The town’s population had slumped after the Appalachian Power coal plant closed nearly a decade ago.
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As population and revenues slide, and controversies mount, the Giles County town of Glen Lyn will vote Tuesday on whether to disband
The town’s main employer is gone, and the mayor of 40 years is under federal indictment.
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Green Pastures, once a haven from segregation in Alleghany County, works to reclaim its past
At one time, Green Pastures was the only federal recreation site open to Black Virginians.
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New exhibit tells the story of a Rockbridge County family, and the slavery and emancipation that shaped it
Members of the Halliburton family were enslaved in Rockbridge County, then were freed and immigrated to Liberia. An exhibit at the Brownsburg Museum traces their journeys, struggles and triumphs.
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One by one, fallen gravestones are restored by volunteers seeking to bring ‘respect and dignity’ back to Black cemetery
A national expert on monument restoration gave a free workshop at Roanoke’s Old Lick Cemetery, a historic African American burying ground that was decimated by urban renewal.
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America’s first Black ambassador will be honored in his hometown: Roanoke
The state has approved a historical marker to remember Edward Dudley, who in 1949 became U.S. Ambassador to Liberia.
